Google has thousands of engineers. How many "senior staff software engineers"?
"This estimate is based upon 18 Google Senior Staff Software Engineer salary reports"
"This estimate is based upon 1 Dropbox Engineer salary report"
"This estimate is based upon 1 Facebook Staff Software Engineer salary report"
So we're looking at salaries of 20 engineers. There are how many thousand engineers in the Bay Area?
I don't think your data is statistically significant. I'm not saying these people don't exist. I'm saying they're not as common as these companies would like us to believe.
Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
by ryandrake on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @09:22PM
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Yea, I always understood those Super Senior Staff Software Engineer roles at these top companies are for the rare "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" people, not the more common "third average software engineer from the left".
Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
by vostok on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:50AM
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This is an incorrect understanding. I personally know someone at Google who is nowhere near "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" and they make >$300k (but not much more) with just a few years of experience.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Staff-Softwar... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Dropbox-Engineer-Salaries-E... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Staff-Software-Eng...